Senate Republicans offered a Medicaid overhaul on Wednesday that’s more sweeping than a House plan because it would recruit private managed-care companies to coordinate patient services and shift North Carolina’s Medicaid agency to a new department.

U.S. Senator Kay Hagan, D-N.C., and Speaker of the House Thom Tillis, R-Mecklenburg, who is challenging Hagan for her seat, have agreed to dates for two debates sponsored by the N.C. Association of Broadcasters.